Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this Senior Software Engineer role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Alice & Bob's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Senior Software Engineer role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Alice & Bob's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Senior Software Engineer posting at Alice & Bob — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Senior Software Engineer posting at Alice & Bob — free, in seconds.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Pulse Team, you will design, develop, and maintain high-performance software solutions at the core of our quantum computing technology. You will act as a technical leader, driving architectural decisions, championing best practices, and mentoring junior engineers. Your work will involve developing the low-level software stack, closely integrated with hardware, bridging scientific R&D, data engineering, and platform design to enable rapid iteration for researchers and physicists.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain low-level drivers and hardware abstraction layers for control electronics, including signal generators, AWGs, digitizers, and custom FPGA-based instruments.
- Define clean hardware/software interfaces that decouple control electronics from higher-level experiment logic, enabling fast hardware iteration without breaking the software stack.
- Collaborate closely with physicists and researchers to ensure models and interfaces reflect real experimental needs and enable fast iteration.
- Drive long-term architectural strategy, technical roadmap, and cross-organizational alignment.
- Mentor teams, challenge assumptions, and lead architecture reviews across the platform department.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing low-level software stacks close to the hardware.
- Superior engineering proficiency in Python.
- Ability to define clean abstractions and synchronization mechanisms for hardware/software interaction loops, including real-time constraints, timing accuracy, and low-latency communication with control hardware.
- Hands-on experience writing drivers or low-level interfaces for hardware instruments (e.g., via VISA, SCPI, PCIe, Ethernet/UDP, or custom protocols).
- Solid understanding of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) fundamentals—sampling, filtering, modulation/demodulation, and their application to waveform generation and acquisition.
- Ability to collaborate and challenge ideas with physicists, academic-level experts, and deeply technical researchers.
- Strong technical leadership: able to influence direction, align teams, and support cross-domain decision-making.
- Hands-on experience with automation systems (schedulers, workflow engines, configuration graphs, data pipelines).
- Strong product mindset: ability to think about end-to-end delivery, user experience, reliability, and long-term lifecycle.
- Experience delivering a hardware-backed product (accelerators, HPC nodes, scientific instruments) to external users.
Skills
- Python
- Low-level software development
- Hardware abstraction layers
- Driver development
- Hardware instrument interfaces
- Real-time constraints
- Timing accuracy
- Low-latency communication
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Automation systems
- Product mindset
- Technical leadership
Location
- Remote (up to 40% per month)
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years
Benefits
- BSPCE plan
- Direct IP Compensation with substantial bonuses
- Flexible remote policy (up to 40% per month)
- Parental plan with crèche support or additional days-off for children under 12
- Subsidized membership with Urban Sports Club
- Mental health support with moka.care
- 25-day vacation policy + RTT
- Half of transportation cost coverage or yearly allowance for bicycle users
- Competitive health coverage with Alan
- Meal vouchers with Swile
- Fully equipped and regularly stocked kitchen
- French language courses
About the Company
- Alice & Bob is developing the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer using Schrödinger cat qubits.
- The company aims to revolutionize computing by building a practical fault-tolerant quantum machine.
- It is a diverse team of over 250 brilliant minds from over 35 countries.
- Alice & Bob is one of the most innovative startups in France at an early stage.
- The company fosters a culture of sharing, learning, and innovation.
Equal Opportunity
- Research shows that women might feel hesitant to apply for this job if they don't match 100% of the job requirements listed. This list is a guide, and we'd love to receive your application even if you think you're only a partial match. We are looking to build teams that innovate, not just tick boxes on a job spec.